FontShop

Celebrating 20 years!

Log In

  1. Fonts
  2. Blog
  3. Help

Minion® Std Black
Bookmark and Share

Designed by Robert Slimbach in 1992

Published by Creative Alliance

Available Formats

OpenType

This font is available in the following package:

Minion® Std Black 1 font | $29.00
  • Specimen
  • Fonts Like This NEW!

Enter sample text:  
 

 
  • Minion® Std Black

  • Display Sample Text Sample Character Set

    Minion® Std BlackMinion® Std BlackMinion® Std BlackMinion® Std BlackMinion® Std BlackMinion® Std Black
    Minion® Std BlackMinion® Std Black
    OpenType Features Hover over a feature to learn more. Click a feature to filter Character Set view.
    1. Show All Characters
    2. Access All Alternates
      This feature makes all variations of a selected character accessible. This serves several purposes: An application may not support the feature by which the desired glyph would normally be accessed; the user may need a glyph outside the context supported by the normal substitution, or the user may not know what feature produces the desired glyph. Since many-to-one substitutions are not covered, ligatures would not appear in this table unless they were variant forms of another ligature.
    3. Denominators
      Replaces selected figures which follow a slash with denominator figures.
    4. Fractions
      Replaces figures separated by a slash with 'common' (diagonal) fractions.
    5. Kerning
      Adjusts amount of space between glyphs, generally to provide optically consistent spacing between glyphs. Although a well-designed typeface has consistent inter-glyph spacing overall, some glyph combinations require adjustment for improved legibility. Besides standard adjustment in the horizontal direction, this feature can supply size-dependent kerning data via device tables, "cross-stream" kerning in the Y text direction, and adjustment of glyph placement independent of the advance adjustment. Note that this feature may apply to runs of more than two glyphs, and would not be used in monospaced fonts. Also note that this feature does not apply to text set vertically.
    6. Standard Ligatures
      Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph which is preferred for typographic purposes. This feature covers the ligatures which the designer/manufacturer judges should be used in normal conditions.
    7. Lining Figures
      This feature changes selected figures from oldstyle to the default lining form.
    8. Numerators
      Replaces selected figures which precede a slash with numerator figures, and replaces the typographic slash with the fraction slash.
    9. Oldstyle Figures
      This feature changes selected figures from the default lining style to oldstyle form.
    10. Ordinals
      Replaces default alphabetic glyphs with the corresponding ordinal forms for use after figures. One exception to the follows-a-figure rule is the numero character (U+2116), which is actually a ligature substitution, but is best accessed through this feature.
    11. Proportional Figures
      Replaces figure glyphs set on uniform (tabular) widths with corresponding glyphs set on glyph-specific (proportional) widths. Tabular widths will generally be the default, but this cannot be safely assumed. Of course this feature would not be present in monospaced designs.
    12. Scientific Inferiors
      Replaces lining or oldstyle figures with inferior figures (smaller glyphs which sit lower than the standard baseline, primarily for chemical or mathematical notation). May also replace lowercase characters with alphabetic inferiors.
    13. Superscript
      Replaces lining or oldstyle figures with superior figures (primarily for footnote indication), and replaces lowercase letters with superior letters (primarily for abbreviated French titles).
    14. Tabular Figures
      Replaces figure glyphs set on proportional widths with corresponding glyphs set on uniform (tabular) widths. Tabular widths will generally be the default, but this cannot be safely assumed. Of course this feature would not be present in monospaced designs.
    All glyphs (13 glyphs)
     
    character set

Submit an example of Minion Std Black in use. We'll post the most interesting images here with a credit and link.

Registered, Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions
View End User License Agreement
Font #146481